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2013 · CI Games S.A. · First-person shooter · Shooter

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is the only multi-platform, first-person, modern shooter exclusively designed around the sniper experience. It takes the bulls-eye precision of its predecessor to new and exciting heights, offering more diverse sniper challenges; a rebuilt AI system and the thrilling “one shot, one kill” precision that made the original a huge hit, selling 3 million copies worldwide. Taking advantage of the advanced capabilities of the CryENGINE3, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 also delivers striking graphic environments.

Released
12 March 2013
Platforms
PlayStation 3WindowsXbox 360
Genres
First-person shooterShooterTacticalTactical shooter
Developers
CI Games S.A.
Publishers
CI Games S.A.
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
First person
Themes
ActionStealthWarfare
Country
Poland
Age ratings
ESRB M
Languages
Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
5hmain story12hcompletionist

About

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is a 2013 tactical shooter video game developed and published by City Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the third entry in the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series and is the sequel to Sniper: Ghost Warrior.

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Gameplay

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is a tactical shooter that employs stealth, hand-to-hand assassinations and titular sniping techniques. Gameplay features realistic bullet physics that factors distance, wind, and bullet drop when sniping targets.

Story

S. Marine Captain Cole Anderson, in the Philippines, with CIA Officer Diaz making their way to an old Russian radar post to destroy it while working on a tip that some mercenaries had assembled there to broker a deal for a biological weapon. While Diaz destroys it, he overhears enemy radio chatter about the capture of a spy working for the PSC by the mercenaries. Diaz commands a team to rescue the operative while Anderson makes his way to provide covering fire from a cave overlooking the resort, where the soldier is being held captive and where the supposed deal is scheduled to take place.

They save the soldier, however while monitoring the deal Anderson sees one of the dealers to be Merinov, an old aquantaince from his past, and subsequently the entire team is ambushed by an enemy sniper and everyone except Anderson is either killed or captured. Anderson heads to a village to intercept the transfer of the bio-weapon as well as his captured teammates. He manages find Diaz and Gomez just as they are about to be executed, and when guards kill Gomez, Anderson intervenes to save Diaz. However, the bio-weapon is lost.

Reception

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Gameplanet's reviewer writes that the game is not as linear as other modern (i.e. in the game's time) shooters, and calls it "easily its greatest strength".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows11 March 2013North America · Europe 15 March 2013 · Australia 19 March 2013 · Japan 27 June 2013
Xbox 36012 March 2013North America · Europe 15 March 2013 · Australia 19 March 2013 · Japan 27 June 2013
PlayStation 312 March 2013North America · Europe 15 March 2013 · Australia 19 March 2013 · Japan 27 June 2013

Editions and related releases

Included in
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Trilogy
Downloadable content
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - Siberian StrikeSniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - World Hunter Pack
Follows
Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Built on it
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - Siberian Strike
Editions
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - Collector's EditionSniper: Ghost Warrior 2 - Limited Edition

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